Senior Data Engineer, Platform & Analytics

Ground News; États-Unis; À distance; USD 140 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote work

Growth opportunities

Collaborative culture

Résumé du poste

Ground News is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build scalable data models and reliable data pipelines within the ML chapter and Platform & Infrastructure pod. You will split time between data ingestion into our warehouse and analytical layers that serve KPIs for Growth, Monetization, and Core Experience.

You will design reusable data models, own end-to-end ingestion and quality, and collaborate with analysts, ML engineers, and product stakeholders to create trustworthy self-serve data while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms and analytical models.
• Deep expertise in SQL and Python.
• Broad experience with dimensional modelling: grain, table types, conformed dimensions, and load patterns.
• Hands-on experience with modern data tooling: BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, and ingestion tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or Google Datastream.
• Experience with data stores and event-driven systems such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and message queues or streams (Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub).
• SRE-oriented experience: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance optimization for data integrations.
• Experience shipping data and metrics safely, with the validation habits to keep wrong numbers off dashboards and an eye on the compute cost behind them.

Responsabilités

• Design and build scalable, conformed data models and analytical layers that serve experimentation and company KPIs.
• Own the connectors that land data in the warehouse end to end, from replicated backend tables to custom connectors you build yourself and third-party managed sources.
• Manage infrastructure as code and deployment workflows across AWS and GCP, using Kubernetes and OpenTofu (Terraform) to ship changes safely.
• Own the pipelines you build, monitoring freshness and responding to failures with urgency.
• Act as a senior voice in data architecture decisions, from selecting table types and datastores to designing the schemas from backend to semantic layers.
• Partner directly with analysts, ML engineers, and product stakeholders to turn business questions into data models they can self-serve from.
• Champion high engineering quality through testing, code reviews, observability, and thoughtful operational practices.

Connaissances

SQL

Python

Dimensional modelling

BigQuery

dbt

Dagster

Fivetran

Airbyte

Google Datastream

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Kafka

SQS

Pub/Sub

Kubernetes

OpenTofu

Outils

BigQuery

dbt

Dagster

Fivetran

Airbyte

Google Datastream

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Kafka

SQS

Pub/Sub

Kubernetes

OpenTofu

Description du poste

Ground News is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build scalable data models and reliable data pipelines within the ML chapter and Platform & Infrastructure pod. You will split time between data ingestion into our warehouse and analytical layers that serve KPIs for Growth, Monetization, and Core Experience.

You will design reusable data models, own end-to-end ingestion and quality, and collaborate with analysts, ML engineers, and product stakeholders to create trustworthy self-serve data while